UPTH Begins Construction Of New Maternity Block

In a bid to deliver quality healthcare to its clients, the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), has moblised contractors to site, to start the construction of a building for Obstetrics and Gynaecology (0&G) in the hospital premises.

The Acting Public relations Officer, UPTH, Mr. Akie Hart, made this known in a press statement in Port Harcourt.

Mr. Hart said the new Obstetrics and Gynaecology building project was born after an interface between the hospital management and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) office in the Presidency.

He stated that the management obtained the approval for this project at a time when no new projects were being approved, nothing that it was the management desire for infrastructural upgrade of the hospital that made them to push hard for the approval.

Hart recalled that (UPTH) had earlier received approval and completed the Paediatrics Department block and initiated the building of dedicated and exclusive blocks for Psychiatry, Ear, Nose and Throat, Dialysis/Kidney Trans-plantation and regional Burns Centres.

He lauded the input of the staff members of the  O&G Department, saying, “The Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department has been involved in the conceptualisation, planning and implementation of this project as their critical inputs have been captured in the final products”.

He added that the hospital is committed to improving the quality of health care delivery in the state that would see the end of overseas referrals.

Pix 21; L-R: Representative of the Commanding Officer, Defence Headquarters Medical Centre, Col. Confort Dosumu, Administrative Officer, Abuja Operation Office, nema, Mrs Chinwe Opara and  Director, Research and Rescue, Air Commodore Charles Otegbade, at the round table discussion on challenges facing emergency medical response in the Abuja,  yesterday. Photo: NAN

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L-R: Representative of the Commanding Officer, Defence Headquarters Medical Centre, Col. Confort Dosumu, Administrative Officer, Abuja Operation Office, nema, Mrs Chinwe Opara and Director, Research and Rescue, Air Commodore Charles Otegbade, at the round table discussion on challenges facing emergency medical response in the Abuja, yesterday. Photo: NAN